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October is just around the corner. This months calendar is hand painted – from the Hospice of Santa Barbara Clutch Fundraiser. Images below are from the final clutch – that will be auctioned off soon. 🙂 “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear…

Working at the I Madonnari festival over the weekend on a square for Arts for Humanity! I had the opportunity to be an on camera interview – showing up on the local news. This is the 4th year I have done a square – it’s always a blast!

Last week I participated as a visiting artist for an art class with Karsen Lee Gould of Arts for Humanity! and Santa Barbara Housing Authority Youth Program. I showed the children how to paint spring flowers. It was a fun experience and I hope to be involved with more classes in the future. Arts for…

A few weeks ago I started volunteering at Youth Interactive in Santa Barbara. I spend one afternoon each week helping kids who are creative entrepreneurs. They call their program TEA – for Technology, Entrepreneurship and The Arts. It’s an inviting creative space down in the ‘FUNK ZONE’ near State Street and the beach. The first project I…

This year I am volunteering to help create the Goddess Grove with a bunch of Vivacious Jaguars at the Lucidity Festival. My involvement with the Jaguars started last month when I painted a group of women into Glowing Golden Jaguars for a ticket release party at SoHo. This month I’m spending Sundays at the workshop…

The process of creating 13 vivacious jaguars… Last week I got together with a couple of women to discuss the possibility of air-brushing full body makeup Jaguar costumes. We had a photo for inspiration and some ideas about how to use templates – to create the desired outcome. Why Jaguars? The theme is in honor…

11/11/12 was the day TEDxAmericanRiviera took over the Bacara Resort & Spa and I was there! It was a perfect day full of ideas worth sharing. Some of the people I got to meet included: The Producers – (amazing people) Mark Sylvester and Kymberlee Weil of introNetworks, Inc. The Organizers – (totally awesome) Tami Sherman of Elements Meetings and Dawn Mitcham,…

Several year ago I became involved with a Santa Barbara non-profit group called Arts for Humanity. Arts for Humanity! is a Santa Barbara based non-profit that empowers low income at-risk youth, persons with disabilities, and the elderly through participatory performing and visual arts programs. The founder of AH!, Karsen Lee Gould, invited me to an…

Next month I’ll busy every weekend with 4 different local Santa Barbara outdoor events! I’m working on a photo stop installation to bring to events – using chalkboard signs I created to highlight each festival/date. April 1st and 5th, Santa Barbara Arts and Craft Show @ the pier in Downtown SB (my mobile gallery)…